Art School Pays Off

Next week is our annual MHW trip to the lovely Blue Ridge Mountains to visit our friends G&C. I will be leaving on Friday to take advantage of the fact that I am not in school or otherwise restrained by any sort of real schedule. Even better - Mags isn't coming out until next week with Husband -- I will be a free woman! Whoo hoo!

The long weekend normally consists of not much more than kids running around, napping, lots of card playing, queso and chips, and bourbon and cokes pretty much at a slow trickle every day. :) Oh sure, occasionally we go through the pretense of "getting out of the house" and running into one of the local art communities to check out some galleries and buy overpriced cheese, but just barely. Mostly it is a glorious long weekend of slack. Ahhhh.

There is a bit of a running gag every year, however. Inevitably, we end up listening to the soundtrack from Jesus Christ Superstar every year (I LOVE that movie,) and also at some point, we end up listening to Inginue by k.d. lang. Now, if you aren't familiar with this particular album, it is beautiful, but it is very slow. Frankly, there are really only two of us who really like it, and yes, we force everyone else to listen to it. So between these two albums, you can imagine that there is much bitching and threats of suicide by the other 8ish people joining us for the weekend. (Losers.)

So, today, instead of doing laundry for my trip, or cleaning the rotting dishes in the sink, I made the following. Its not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with it. Have I mentioned how much I love Photoshop?